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As someone with a constant vitamin D insufficiency I'd like to remind people that absorbtion is very difficult - you have to take it with a fatty meal!

> The presence of fat in a meal with which a vitamin D-3 supplement is taken significantly enhances absorption of the supplement [1]

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25441954




Getting people to eat fatty meals doesn't sound very challenging.


Try older seniors with diabetes who have long since adapted to low fat, low sugar meals. Often rather bland stuff.




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